HueComb

Boho Copper

#b96033

An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#b96033

RGB

185, 96, 51

OKLCh

58.6% 0.129 45.7°

CIELAB (D50)

51.1, 34.2, 41.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.0; on black, Lc -31.7. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 27.8 and 29.5 and 33.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.39:1 — large text only

Black text

4.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b75e31 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b96033

protanopia

#6f6f34 · ΔE00 27.8

deuteranopia

#82822c · ΔE00 29.5

tritanopia

#959500 · ΔE00 33.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGold Varnish Brown at ΔE00 0.809: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.